Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces today opened fire on a group of kolbars in the mountainous Qandil region of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, killing 19-year-old Kiyan Zeyni and wounding two brothers, Peyman and Keyvan Ghaderi. IRGC forces stationed at the Kotarleh military base in Sardasht opened fire on the group at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has...

Iranian border guards in Kermanshah Province opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area this morning, killing one kolbar and wounding six others, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Kolbar Ayoub Mohammadi died of his injuries after being taken to Quds Hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah Province. Mohammadi was a 29-year-old father of one child from the village of Kugah in...

Iranian border guards shot and killed Arkan Balvaseh, a 29-year-old kolbar, this morning in the Tateh border area of Hawraman in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. A source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "In the early hours of Friday 21 June, a group of kolbars in the Tateh border heights, while carrying no goods, were targeted by Iranian border guards at close...

Hazhir Mahmoudpour, a young kolbar from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was fatally shot by border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On the evening of 4 June, a group of kolbars were targeted by border guards' gunfire, leaving Mahmoudpour seriously injured. He was taken to Ghods Hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, but died this morning despite...

Rahim Ebrahimi, a kolbar from the village of Valiv in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, fell into a river and died while being chased by Iranian border guards in the Qandil border area of Sardasht last week. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident occurred on the evening of 31 May when a group of kolbars returning from the border were ambushed...

Sina Rasoulzadeh, a 19-year-old kolbar from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, was shot dead by Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 28 May. The incident occurred when a group of kolbars in the area came under fire from the border guards. Rasoulzadeh's body was taken to Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh, and it has not yet been released to...

A young kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, identified as Vahed Ghaderpour, was fatally shot today by border guards in the Hengeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The incident took place early this morning when a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area came under fire from border guards, resulting in Ghaderpour's death. Over the...

Iranian border guards fatally shot kolbar Salar Ahmadi on 9 May in the Qandil mountainous region between Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi was shot when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars with DShKs on the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan. The body of the kolbar, from Nalas in West...

A kolbar, Ata Rostampour, was shot dead by Iranian border forces in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 5 May. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident occurred on the evening of 5 May when a group of kolbars came under fire from border forces, resulting in the death of Rostampour, a kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Rostampour's...